{"id":32683,"date":"2024-05-27T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=32683"},"modified":"2024-05-27T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T14:44:50","slug":"political-thugs-clash-with-anti-abure-protesters-at-labour-party-national-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/27\/political-thugs-clash-with-anti-abure-protesters-at-labour-party-national-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Thugs Clash with Anti-Abure Protesters at Labour Party National Secretariat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An angry mob, suspected to be thugs loyal to the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, attacked protesters at the party&#8217;s national secretariat in Abuja on Monday. The protesters, believed to be from the Edo State chapter, had arrived to demand Abure&#8217;s removal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation began when the anti-Abure protesters arrived at the headquarters in several vehicles, carrying placards and chanting solidarity songs. As some protesters disembarked, the suspected thugs attacked the vehicles with sticks and other objects, forcing the drivers to flee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The situation escalated when the thugs began throwing stones into the nearby Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, causing journalists covering the incident to scatter. Armed policemen and operatives from the Department of State Security (DSS) intervened, preventing the situation from further escalating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An angry mob, suspected to be thugs loyal to the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, attacked protesters at the party&#8217;s national secretariat in Abuja on Monday. The protesters, believed to be from the Edo State chapter, had arrived to demand Abure&#8217;s removal. &nbsp; The confrontation began when the anti-Abure protesters arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":32701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32702,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32683\/revisions\/32702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}